AMD’s new 6th generation A-Series Carrizo chip features four processing cores and eight Radeon R7 FX-8800P graphics cores. The new chip enables better battery life with 2X video playback times on the battery and better gaming. Enhanced support for Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 10 is also highlighted for this chip.
Another surprising new features is the chip’s native support for the next-gen HEVC/H.265 video format, available for notebooks for the first time. This will allow users to play and stream high quality video at lower bandwidths.
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Despite all these great features, the new chip has been launched to support mid-range laptops and notebooks to bring better visuals and gaming experience at affordable prices.
“Today’s consumer shouldn’t have to pay a premium to enjoy high quality streaming video, superior online gaming, and powerful content management,” said Matt Skynner, corporate VP and general manager, Products at AMD. “That changes today with the 6th Generation AMD A-Series Processor, designed to deliver exceptional experiences never before seen in a mainstream notebook, truly making innovation available to everyone. Our partners have plans to introduce our 6th-generation APU in many of today’s most innovative notebook platforms, demonstrating the full potential of the APU’s capabilities.”
Main Features of the processor -:
- Benefit from energy-efficient playback that allows for almost 2x more viewing on a single battery charge than its predecessor.
- Power through media conversion faster with up to 5x accelerated encoding performance compared to CPU-only processing.
- 6th Generation AMD A-Series Processors come with discrete-class graphics built in, harnessing AMD Radeon™ Graphics Core Next (GCN) Architecture to deliver up to 2x the gaming performance of competitive processors.
- Enjoy true, playable HD notebook gaming with the most popular online titles including DoTA 2, League of Legends, and Counter Strike: Global Offensive, among others.
- Play for hours unplugged on the latest eSports titles, almost twice the duration of its predecessor.7
- Benefit from AMD Dual Graphics combining 6th Generation AMD Notebook Processors with select AMD Radeon™ R7 Mobile graphics to boost frame rates in games by up to 42 percent.8
- Enjoy smooth, stutter- and tear-free gaming with AMD FreeSync™ technology.9
- Be ready for the future with support for multi-threaded APIs including DirectX™ 12, Vulkan™ and AMD’s Mantle that enable the most advanced gaming technologies designed to improve performance and visual fidelity.
- For the most complete Microsoft Windows® 10 experience, 6th Generation AMD A-Series Processors accelerate video playback on the forthcoming operating system with native HEVC decode supported, and enable the latest Windows® 10 features with Secure boot and resume, Trusted Platform Module (TPM 2.0), and Drive Key Encryption using the first AMD Secure Processor for performance APUs.
[ Via: CNET / Source: Press Release ]
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